In 2004, I planned a trip to attend the Musikmesse in Shanghai as part of my effort to find the right factory to produce my custom carbon fiber fiddlers’ bow. I’d been searching for a translator to help with business communication during the trip, and through colleagues in Asia, I was introduced to Emily.

She was a manager at Hanjin Shipping at the time — poised, sharp, and easy to talk to. We met over tea and started working together. Before long, the conversations moved from bow specs and trade terms to life, family, music, and everything in between. One meeting turned into many. Friendship turned into something more. That trip changed everything.

This song is about that time — about falling in love far from home, not in a rush, but with certainty. The melody draws gently from the spirit of the Butterfly Lovers and Chinese pentatonics, but the soul of it is American folk. The strings in this tune are the same strings that carried me from an idea… to a bow… to a partnership for life.

For Emily.

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